drafting Porcello was never an option... right or wrong the white sox as an organization do not draft over slot in the first round. we were never going to draft Porcello in the late first round and give him top 5 money.

I don't think it was about slot as much as about giving a HS kid that high a signing bonus.

I don't think it was about slot as much as about giving a HS kid that high a signing bonus.

If his agent hadn't been:
It might have been more likely. Let's also not forget that the Sox have been burned recently by some high school pitchers. Jason Stumm and Kris Honel come to mind as first rounders plagued by injuries.

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If his agent hadn't been:
It might have been more likely. Let's also not forget that the Sox have been burned recently by some high school pitchers. Jason Stumm and Kris Honel come to mind as first rounders plagued by injuries.

Not AS a big deal as those, but our 2nd rounder from HS in '07, Nevin Griffith, hasn't lived up to expectations either, and he's out for all of 2009 with TJ surgery.

In one sense, we are debating if our best pitching prospect will ever be a starter in one thread, and in another, the guy we passed on, the guy I eat crap for saying we should have taken over Poreda, is ranked number 4 in all over baseball. I know these rankings don't mean a ton, but say the JD deal goes through, and we get Homer Bailey, and say for fun Coop gets him back to form. Porcello-Danks-Floyd-Bailey could be the closest thing baseball will ever see to Smoltz-Glavine-Maddux-Avery. 4 top flight, young, pitching prospects. 4 pitching prospects that at one point were all thought to be future cy young winners.

Poreda isn't bad, but its choices like this, CHEAP CHOICES and a refusal to work with Boras, that keep us from having a top 15 minor league system (not the fact we don't always get top 10 picks).